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The Classic Sunday Stew Your Grandparents Loved But You Rarely See Today

Popular recipes come and go in the same way fashion, music, and other trendy things often do. One generation's favorite may be virtually unknown by the time their grandkids are cooking in kitchens of their own, for no reason other than changing tastes and food priorities. A classic example of this can be found in a simple, hearty dish with very humble roots. It's known as mulligan stew, and it's fallen off the food radar in the decades since many of our grandparents regularly enjoyed it.

Mulligan stew has a history about as unpretentious as it gets, tracing its origins to the migrant workers of the early 20th-century. These traveling workers developed a close-knit community, often having to make do

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